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(08-11-2019, 04:17 PM)ChainsawAsh Wrote: Would you recommend the 251-minute version for a first-time viewer, or would I be okay to stick with the 229-minute version that's on Netflix? I was thinking of watching this soon since I saw it listed on there the other night, but if it's worth tracking down the 251-minute version instead, I'll do that.

I would totally recommend the shorter cut, I thought it was a masterpiece already. If you can watch it for "free" on Netflix, I'd go with that. None of the new scenes significantly alter the narrative, characters, or add radical new bits of info, plus because they look so bad they arguably interrupt the flow of the film, especially for a new viewer. IIRC the cut is otherwise identical, no scenes re-arranged or changed. It's just that one addition I mentioned in my review which I felt added more of a context cushion after a harrowing event. Now that I think about it, there is an additional scene at the end that adds quite a bit more explanation about one of the two main characters but it doesn't really alter what the ending is about thematically and doesn't give you any info you hadn't already inferred. Anyway, I'll stop rambling.